I think the front of the car is on the left (chrome trim at the edge of the picture), firewall on the right (brake master cylinder is a clue) and the bonnet is split longitudinally down the center. We are looking in on the left side. Looks like an A/C condenser but I can’t really make out much else. My first thought was a Siata Spring, but its bonnet doesn’t wrap down the side like this.

Siata Spring did not come from the factory with a/c. I don’t think it was even on the option list. That tiny 850cc engine could barely keep up never mind with the added weight of the a/c and the power robbing compressor.

This is a good one. Almost 9 hours and no one has guessed the right answer. I have no clue but am waiting anxiously for the answer. And when it happens there is going to be a loud noise of people slapping their foreheads.

Following all of Ed’s clues, I’m going to guess the Bremen Mini Mark. It seems to fit all the criteria: it’s got factory air, has a 4-speed manual, wasn’t *technically* a kit car since it was purchased fully completed, looks similar to the Siata Spring, could be titled as a 1981 model (they made them until 1982), had fewer than 400 made, was made in America, and the company (Bremen Sport Equipment, Inc.) shared its name with the city in which it was located (Bremen, IN).

If there’s another car that fits all these criteria, I would be suitably astonished.

Great find here ! Now I can even see the curved shape of the shade projected by the raised hood.
But I would not have expected such a small (and straight) opening, especially with this curvy hood shape, and I did not interpret correctly the corresponding bottom curve on the photo.

This contest unsettled me; looking at so many fiberglassics leaves a bit of nausea, compounded by the high regard in which Frankenwagens seem to be held by those who post their photos. I can’t seem to open my mind enough to accept the compromises that take most of these cars away from any understanding of why 1930s cars looked like they did.

Every so often, though, you find somebody nutty enough to design a body first, then figure out how to fit it on a VW pan. This car will be gorgeous, if it’s ever finished:

The fenders look closer to the hood than in the Gazelle, but I can’t pinpoint the car. It’s clear by now that it’s a rear-engined fiberglass car with air conditioning and dual circuit brakes, center-hinged front hood, and looked at from the left (of course, it could be an English-export version and looked at from the left….)